Kathleen Navarro

Education

Research

My dissertation aims to evaluate new tools to measure and calculate exposures to hazardous air pollutants from workplaces and the ambient environment. First, I will evaluate the use of measured task-specific ventilation rates to calculate doses of inhaled chemicals. Second, I will assess occupational exposures of wildland firefighters to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Lastly, I will evaluate biomarkers of exposures to PAHs in a representative sample of the United States population to examine how different sources of PAHs and routes of exposures contribute to measured internal levels.

Why I chose the Berkeley EHS program

Graduate Program in Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley

Training graduate students to become leaders in public health research and professional practice at the interface of environment and health.

Graduate programs in the Environmental Health Sciences division at UC Berkeley provide opportunities for students to learn how human populations—especially the most vulnerable members of society, such as young children, pregnant women, workers, and the poor—are affected by environmental exposures, ranging from microbial and chemical contamination of water, air and other media, to climate change, industrialization, and unplanned urbanization.